Improvement in corn-planters



H. RUTH.

Corn Planter.

No 35,545. Patented June 10, 1862.

Inventor:

AMLPHOTU-LITHO. C0. N.Y. (QSBURNE'S PROCESS) UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

HENRY RUTH, OF SUMMERFIELD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,545, dated J nne 10,1862.

To all whom tt may concern:

' Be it known that l, HENRY RUTH, of Summerfield, in thecounty of St.Clair and State of Illinois, havei-nvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Corn-Planters, and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear,

. .and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexeddrawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a topview of my said improved planter; and Fig.2 is a transverse verticalsection through the same, taken on the line A.

My invention consists in anovel method of making and operating thedropping-valve and in a novel construction of the covering apparatus. I

The following description of my improvements will enableany one skilledin the art to which they appertain to make and use them.

Like letters of reference represent corresponding parts of the differentfigures of the drawings referred to.

In the drawings, A represents the main frame of myim proved machine. Itis of rectangular form andmounted upon the axle B, so as to aboutbalance.

The hopper-boxes are represented by O 0.

They are arranged and secured upon a Hat.

adjusting-pieces b. i In the center of said valve,

inone edge thereof, an arm, 0, is fixed and braced in the manner shown.This arm is operated upon by the cam F, fixed on the main axle B.Against one side of the main frame, in the inside thereof, a smallspring is fixed, (shown by 01,) the end whereof bears against the end ofthe valve aforesaid, so that by meansof said cam the valve is opened,and by means of said spring it is closed. The cam I may be made to openthe valve once, twice, or

three times every revolution thereof, and the spring will of courseinstantly close it as soon as the cam clears it.

The seed-tubes, through which the corn drops,and which make thefurrow inthe ground, are represented by G. They are arranged in a hinged frame,H, and secured by means of the brace I, and said vibrating frame isattached to the lever J, by which the tubes are raised and lowered fromand to the ground whenever it maybe desired to suspend or commence theoperation of the machine.

The covers are represented by K. They consist of two rollers, L, and acurved metal plate, M, arranged in front of said rollers between thestring-pieces N.. In the bottom edges of said curved plates teeth areout, as shown by e, the object whereof is to knock the lumps of dirt topieces. The object of said plates is to draw the dirt back intothefurrow, and the object of said rollers is to press the dirt down onthe seed. Said covers are raised and lowered from and to the'ground bymeans of a crank-shaft, f, fixed against the rear part of the mainframe. The cranks on said shaft are connected to said cover in themanner shown, and said shaft has a lever,g, attached thereto, by whichthe cranks are operated, so as to raise and lower the covers. When saidlever is raised up so as to lift the covers off the ground it catchesbehind the spring h, which holds them up while the ma chine is beingtransported. One of the truck wheels is fast onthe axle, so as to turnthe cam, but the other is loose to facilitate the turning of themachine. The spring-lever i is used to throw the valve out of gear withthe cam when the machine is not in operation.

I claim- 1. In combination with the rollers L, the toothed curved platesM, arranged in a hinged frame, as described.

2. The cam F, in combination with the valve E, constructed and arrangedas described.

- HENRY RUTH. Witnesses:

RoLL1N B. GRAY, JAMES MOMAHON.

